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diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst b/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst index f5cdd84..fe9ca9c 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/inputoutput.rst @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Fancier Output Formatting ========================= So far we've encountered two ways of writing values: *expression statements* and -the :func:`print` function. (A third way is using the :meth:`write` method +the :func:`print` function. (A third way is using the :meth:`~io.TextIOBase.write` method of file objects; the standard output file can be referenced as ``sys.stdout``. See the Library Reference for more information on this.) @@ -456,8 +456,8 @@ to the very file end with ``seek(0, 2)``) and the only valid *offset* values are those returned from the ``f.tell()``, or zero. Any other *offset* value produces undefined behaviour. -File objects have some additional methods, such as :meth:`~file.isatty` and -:meth:`~file.truncate` which are less frequently used; consult the Library +File objects have some additional methods, such as :meth:`~io.IOBase.isatty` and +:meth:`~io.IOBase.truncate` which are less frequently used; consult the Library Reference for a complete guide to file objects. @@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ Saving structured data with :mod:`json` .. index:: pair: module; json Strings can easily be written to and read from a file. Numbers take a bit more -effort, since the :meth:`read` method only returns strings, which will have to +effort, since the :meth:`~io.TextIOBase.read` method only returns strings, which will have to be passed to a function like :func:`int`, which takes a string like ``'123'`` and returns its numeric value 123. When you want to save more complex data types like nested lists and dictionaries, parsing and serializing by hand |